David,

Thanks for the tip.  I guess I'm going to have to hurry along with
this calibration thing.


Bruce



Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 9:53:54 PM, you wrote:

DAM> Bruce Dayton wrote:

>> I'm wondering if there are any quick and dirty places to look to just
>> spot check for general color cast before I get into full/real
>> calibration?

DAM> Compared to 9300K, which is the usual setting for monitors, 6500K does 
DAM> look very yellow; 5500K even more so.  6500K is recommended as this is 
DAM> the white point for both the sRGB and Adobe RGB working colour spaces.

DAM> At least one calibration package (OptiCal, which you can get bundled with 
DAM> the Spyder) allows you to do this as a pre-calibration step before 
DAM> calibrating and profiling.  You adjust the R/G/B controls on your screen 
DAM> until both the colour temperature and luminance are correct.  After that 
DAM> you proceed through the actual calibration and profiling steps.

DAM> Cheers,

DAM> - Dave

DAM> http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/

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